Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight to seat Red China in the Security Council, said Dulles, the U.S. has an effective weapon: the veto. However, the argument may be made that the question of who sits in China's Security Council seat is a procedural one, unlike the "substantive" issue of admitting a new country, and therefore not subject to the veto. Dulles anticipated this reasoning by saying that the U.N.'s tests of eligibility are directed to the performance of governments. Therefore, the admission of new governments is just as substantive as the admission of new countries. The U.S. can veto...
...jealous sister now has the secret weapon she wants. Before the next day is out. the first mother pounds on the schoolhouse door sputtering about "galloping consumption." Sick at heart, Nora takes to her bed half-convinced that the family curse has indeed caught up with her. And now the kindly village priest appears, trying to get Nora back on her feet...
...testified that you talked to various individuals about your plan and the plans of others for the development of the thermonuclear weapon in early October 1949. Is that right...
...operationally. This is three times as long as it took the U.S.'s Manhattan Project to produce the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. The reasons for the slow progress can be found in Dornberger's book, which is an unintentional treatise on how a novel weapon should not be developed...
...best weapon which we have at our command in the battle for preserving the intellectual freedom of this country is the strength of the humanistic tradition in our liberal arts colleges," Taylor told applauding members of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and the Law School Alumni Association...